Nope, some people pirate because they're used to it or because they don't see anything wrong about stealing stuff. In many cases it's not even a case of not being able to afford buying a game or a movie.
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Could you please widen your perspective and take into consideration that gaming is an international hobby and that a large proportion of gamers do come from outside of the western market and that to many of those outside that market, gaming is indeed an expensive hobby.
As a kid (18 - 20 years ago), I pirated games because all games that came to Asia were way too expensive, and/or hard to find.
All gamestores at the time, PC or console games, were always selling pirated games.
All consoles sold came with an option to modify it to play pirated games.
From Game boy, NDS, PS1, PS2, XBOX360, and all PC games at the time, they were all sold as pirated games because the average kid could in no way buy an original copy - and no parent would spend that much.
For example, a $60 game costs 3 to 4 times that price where I currently reside.
A pirates game disc was sold for 10 bucks a pop.
That is how I got into being more into gaming as a kid.
Now imagine that in more economically poorer nations and you see how these things happen.
Now I'm much older and have the means to buy games, I never pirate games.
All games on my PC are bought on steam, and because of Blu Ray and advancements made on anti-piracy and the rise in my countries standard of living, all retailers now sell original copies of current generation of games.
I don't want to say that I support piracy, but as a kid many years ago, that was all we had in order to play the games that we love.
So, to me, if you're some kid living in an economical strained country, and video games are your escape - I won't judge you.
But if you're above the age of 18, and more than capable of organizing yourself to receive an income - you should certainly buy the game.
I apologize for the long wall of text, but I just feel the need to paint a bigger picture for people who condemn piracy in a giant blanket without taking into consideration of the different challenges and struggles of people in different standards of living in their own respective countries.
Games are an escape.
And for some, they truly can't afford it.
You can merely hope that their love for video games translates them to growing up and becoming more financially stable and be able to buy these games normally.
Edit: Now that I think about it, I'm amazed 10 - 12 year old me could figure out how to pirate games.
One of the first was Harvest Moon, but it couldn't load your saved game if you exited - so me and my sister left the PC on for days and stayed up late nights to play it.
We got so caught up with getting married that we didn't bother about the farm too much.
Imagine our sad faces when the mayor (?) came to our farm at the end of the game and told us we failed to make the farm more successful and basically was game over.
We immediately turned off the PC and never touched the game again - we were that sad lmao.
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